Leslie lives in an apartment building that is infamous throughout the city as the location of a poorly planned terrorist attack several years earlier, and while most of the people who lived there at the time have since moved away, those who remain seem to be a bit skittish about Muslims and those of Middle Eastern descent. Enter Aisha, fiancee of Leslie's son, and a Pakistani American Muslim, who comes to live with her future mother-in-law. Aisha keeps seeing horrific beings in the building and starts to wonder if it's not haunted by those who died in the explosion years ago. Soon, Aisha's fears and those of her neighbors come to a head in some fairly horrific ways.
That's a fairly bad description of a truly wonderful graphic novel. As Jeff Lemire points out in the afterword, horror and politics are hard to do well in comics, but Pichetshote and Campbell prove that it can be done. The story seamlessly weaves together several types of horror, both real and supernatural, and Campbell's disturbing and amazing artwork makes it all the more convincing. I'm in awe of this book, and their talents.
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